I hope you're hungry, because I'm serving up seconds...
- As the earth heats up, fish are shrinking.
- This is HUGE. A study found that there's not much convenience in convenience foods. So if you're eating crappier food and you're not even saving time from it, then what's the benefit?
- The Obamas will be dining on perennial wheat flour from the Land Institute. When Wes Jackson met with politicians in DC last week, he showed them the 20-foot-long roots of perennials. They were impressed with the roots but much more lukewarm about his (and Wendell Berry & Fred Kirschenmann's) requests for a 50 year farm bill.
- Vermont's Ag Secretary called our milk pricing system "antiquated" and pressured DC to take more drastic action to help the current crisis. Meanwhile, Vermont's Bernie Sanders blames monopolies for much of the current problems. Are Vermonters the only ones who get it?
- Hehehehe, Wendell Berry says "hogwash" to the idea that we need GMOs to feed the world. I love that man.
- The USDA says that the Waxman-Markey bill will benefit farmers. I wonder if that's a good thing (because sane emissions policy is good for farmers) or a bad thing (because Collin Peterson and big ag interested watered down the bill until it was toothless but profitable to them).
- Wow. Want a few reasons to avoid eating farmed Chilean salmon? They use a TON of antibiotics, including some that aren't legal in the U.S. And yet - Americans gobble up Chilean farmed salmon. Gross. For more info, go here.
- Farmers markets are a ton of fun for us eaters, but what are they like for the farmers?
- Whole Foods is trying to independently verify that its 365 brand products are GMO-free. If they contain corn, soy, or canola, even if they are organic, it's doubtful they are 100% GMO-free. Nearly nothing is anymore.
- We humans are so stupid sometimes. First, we try to set a new world record for largest cupcake. Then we feed the cupcake to pigs. Then, presumably, we eat the pigs. There's no way that's good for anybody.
- Cruises can be fun, but I cringe at the thought of their unsustainability. Here's what it takes to feed a cruise ship of 4000 people.
- When we ban trans fats, do we just replace them with other bad fats? This article says no. However, we do use an awful lot of palm oil in our trans-fat-free foods, and palm oil is pure badness (especially for orangutans, who are losing habitat for palm oil production).
- Will the recession make us healthy? That's what I want to know! Are we going to cook more, eat less meat, and grow our own food? Or will we turn to Spam and McDonalds to get by? From this article, it looks like that we Americans are so confused and illiterate about our food that it's going to be a little of both.
- AAF, this one's for you: How Americans killed French cuisine. Turns out we did more than turning croissants into croissandwiches. The French are actually eating crappier food now, thanks to us.
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